To Kill is to Love

5

Reviewed Kill Bill Vol 2

Where Kill Bill: Volume 1 ended with a dizzying bang, a clandestine revelation and an uncertain future, Quentin Tarantino?s Kill Bill: Volume 2 finalizes on a dread more...

The Reinvention of Chopsloitation

5

Reviewed Kill Bill

As quintessentially Tarantino as Quentin Tarantino can get, Kill Bill Vol.1 is also the film the most dissimilar to the manic director’s past work (the genrread more...

Sloppy Thirds

2

Reviewed Once Upon a Time in Mexico

With only its wonderfully caricatural final act and denouement as its principle virtues, one wonders if Robert Rodriguez is channeling only Sergio Leone’s read more...

The Little Engine that Couldn't

2

Reviewed Seabiscuit

Nearing its first act’s end, at long last, with the inevitable congregation of its main character trio (after an elongated intro mired by two marriages, a cread more...

The shivering of timbers

4

Reviewed Pirates of the Caribbean

Eloquently verbose, chillingly extraordinary and distinctly more authentic in eliciting that innate pirate spirit than any contemporary swashbuckling picture thread more...

Psychology and Smashing Things 101

1

Reviewed The Hulk

One of the more or less highly anticipated comic book adaptations in recent memory, Ang Lee’s Hulk is also one of the more visibly deceitful and accordinglyread more...

God has an anomalous sense of humor

1

Reviewed Bruce Almighty

Manning its moral lighthouses with a creepy homeless man, mannequin-esque and complete with doomsday signs in hand (who later turns out to be something else, irread more...

Uninspired flamboyance as insouciant blah

3

Reviewed The Recruit

Roger Donaldson’s The Recruit is a voluptuous Venus Flytrap of an espionage caper, complete with a monochromatic and appealing exterior of deceptive attractread more...

The (unofficial) fourth in Wes Anderson's oeuvre

3

Reviewed Igby Goes Down

Burr ’’Flock of Seagulls’’ Steers’ Igby Goes Down is a quirky, ambitious and corybantic little thing to behold, retooling the Wes Anderead more...

The fall of an empire. The descent of man.

5

Reviewed 25th Hour

Opening with something along the lines of a Tarantino gimmick and concluding with something of a Scorsese gimmick, Spike Lee’s 25th Hour, indeed, enthusesread more...

Destruction of the pro-military apologue

1

Reviewed Antwone Fisher

Narrow and feeble in consideration, construction and execution, Denzel Washington’s debut, Antwone Fisher, is a grand faux pas in the scheme of invoking dread more...

The Falsity About Charlie

5

Reviewed Adaptation

Obscure by design and endlessly inventive, in a Soderbergh and Coen kind of way, Spike Jonze’s Adaptation is bottomless self-deprecating Charlie Kaufman aread more...

The Travels of Schmidt

5

Reviewed About Schmidt

The blistering irony and torture of retirement seems (and if not, should be) more dreadfully anticipated with the onslaught of modern technology nowadays; the bread more...

Death shall have no dominion

5

Reviewed Solaris

Deviant in its distortions of preconceived expectations attributed to science-fiction films Steven Soderbergh’s abstruse Solaris is opaquely intellectual anread more...

The Analytical Descent of a Career

1

Reviewed Analyze That

With uncouth composure and deliriously soporific pace Harold Ramis’ Analyze That is as unfunny as it is tortuously inert, castrated by a grievous sense for read more...

Scorsese's American History X

2

Reviewed Gangs Of New York

Resembling a colossal gaffe of equal parts James Cameron imitating Martin Scorsese, Michael Bay imitating the same, and the Raging Bull himself pulling an impudread more...

The Art of War

5

Reviewed Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Pummeling the timorous competition and obliterating mountainous ranges of expectation this second installment of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings epicread more...

Ian Fleming rolls ever-so-slightly in his grave

3

Reviewed Die Another Day

Laden with homage to the past nineteen films this XXXed James Bond adventure is hyperbolically grandiose and a chic exercise in the passé spy ritual. The eread more...

The Mysterious Voyage of Sandler

5

Reviewed Punch-Drunk Love

A speciously tangible veracity and contradictory recitation, positioned with a quirky cadre of animal magnetism, subtly and antagonism, Punch-Drunk Love is Paulread more...

Harry Potter and the Great Beneath

4

Reviewed Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Essentially saturated with a consummate propensity for the authentically whimsical and an ingeniously conjured universe of contemporary and mythological assimilread more...